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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Laura's personality like?
(a) Funny and superficial.
(b) Sad and sorrowful.
(c) Vivacious and gay.
(d) Shy and introverted.

2. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?
(a) Going to England to study.
(b) Studying the Greek philosophers.
(c) Following a time-table every day.
(d) Reading the Guardian.

3. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?
(a) His wife nags him.
(b) He is poor.
(c) Nobody uses his fireworks.
(d) He has no friends.

4. Why is everyone on Miguel Street so afraid of Big Foot?
(a) He killed a man.
(b) He's so silent and dangerous-looking.
(c) He's so big and black.
(d) He's not afraid of anything.

5. How much does Hat pay out after Big Foot's big fight?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) Two hundred dollars.
(c) Twenty dollars.
(d) A hundred dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Titus Hoyt wearing when the author first meets him?

2. What does Big Foot do in the cinema one day?

3. How does the author describe the people of Miguel Street when they contemplate where Morgan went after the fire?

4. What is Big Foot's father?

5. Why doesn't Hat like Morgan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Big Foot grow in prominence and respect on Miguel Street, and how does he lose that respect?

2. What does Big Foot do for a living and what happens one day on the beach when the author and Big Foot connect briefly?

3. What does Titus Hoyt urge the author to do, why and against whose wishes?

4. What happens when Laura's daughter, Lorna, gets pregnant?

5. What is the main focus of chapter 10 where Laura is introduced to the reader?

6. Who is Eddoes and what does he do for a living?

7. How does Eddoes use his job to make extra money?

8. What else was Morgan besides a comedian, and what did he do all day:?

9. What does Titus do after getting his certificate?

10. Why do the people of Miguel Street finally laugh at Morgan, and what happens to him then?

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